No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.

To me, it's just that social media is allowing people to be in charge of their own narratives.

I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.

The church and every Christian are individually responsible for the reformation of the country

As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within.

To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.